The same goes for Bay's overabundant camera tricks - like the endless nightclub shot or the spinning gunfight scene (which wears out its "cool factor" pretty quick). Speaking of rip-offs, there are some painfully obvious Matrix-like scenes, which while still over-the-top, come out of nowhere and end up looking horribly out of place. Whatever happened to the cops getting suspended in the movies? Obviously the filmmakers had no room for that cliché, since they'd ripped off virtually every other one in the script already. It seems that Smith and Lawrence must've stockpiled their "get out of jail free" cards, because they destroy literally everything everywhere they go and never seem to get in trouble (though it does open the door for some hilarious Joe Pantoliano moments). It's loud, brutally violent, and extremely bloody, with each gun battle ending with multiple body bags for drug dealers, cops, and bystanders alike. As it turns out, he's managed to create one of the most excessive and mindless blockbusters to come out of Tinseltown in quite some time. It'd been a while since Michael Bay had directed a straight-ahead action film, so you can tell that he wanted to pull out all the stops with this one. This time, they take on a nasty Cuban drug lord and end up destroying half of Miami and Cuba along the way. The Bad Boys are back in this amped-up sequel, promising bigger explosions, wittier dialogue, and more slow-motion shots than the law of Peckinpah allows.